Monday, September 10, 2018

Women who changed the world: Emilie du Chatelet



"Émilie du Châtelet (December 17, 1706–September 10, 1749), born nineteen years after the publication of Newton’s revolutionary Principia, became besotted with science at the age of twelve and devoted the remainder of her life to the passionate quest for mathematical illumination. Although she was ineligible for academic training — it would be nearly two centuries until universities finally opened their doors to women — and was even excluded from the salons and cafés that served as the era’s informal epicenters of intellectual life, open only to men, Du Châtelet made herself into a formidable mathematician, a scholar of unparalleled rigor, and a pioneer of popular science."


https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/01/03/emilie-du-chatelet-fable-of-the-bees-preface/

Thursday, September 6, 2018

The Women of Science Tarot Deck



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The Women of Science Tarot Deck channels the powerful, pioneering women of STEM alongside fundamental concepts in science, math, engineering and technology to help you tell stories about the future. The deck is a fun way to learn about our past and think about ways of tackling the big problems that await us as a species."

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nadja/women-of-science-tarot-deck